Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Killing a Man: The Historical Novel and the Closing Down of Pre-History; CHAPTER 2 Making a Thing into a Man: The Sentimental Novel and Slavery; CHAPTER 3 The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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American culture has often been described in terms of paradigmatic images--the wilderness, the Jeffersonian landscape of family farms, the great industrial cities at the turn of the 19th century. But underlying these cultural ideals are less happy paradoxes.
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Title
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel
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1-4237-3551-X
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HARD FACTS
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American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism.